“The revelation that the FBI and other security agencies were putting direct pressure on social media sites to censor speech was a bombshell. “After Trump got elected, they started getting interested in all kinds of other topics, and then very soon, they were interested in domestic speech. Taibbi, who published the “Twitter Files,” found that in addition to voices like Charlie Kirk, even Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya — who is now the NIH Director — was among those blacklisted and shadow banned. Well, they had a thing where you could see the name, and then there would be a bunch of color-coded things on the page,” Taibbi explains. And it was one of hundreds of things that they could do to your account to deamplify it,” he says.